The innermost 20% of a hard drive has significantly better response time than the outermost. Therefore, a larger HD has other advantages. -- 73s/Best regards de John Bartley K7AAY CN85qj PDX USNG: 10T ER 3007628876 (NAD 83) Let's do the math: CO2 is 3.42% of all greenhouse gases. Man-made CO2 is 3.2% of all CO2. 0.0342 * 0.032 = 0.1% So, if all the planet went 100% nuclear + solar power _tomorrow_, greenhousing drops by 1/10 of one percent. Should CO2 shedding stop 100%, another greenhouse gas would replace it; dihydrogen monoxide, which we *cannot* control (it absorbs 20X more IR in the same spectrum). Let's not cripple our economy w/ cap+trade until we understand what's really going on!
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Thinkpad mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Thinkpad digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [701C] Faster Hard Drive (Aryeh Goretsky (home)) > 2. Re: [701C] Faster Hard Drive (Aryeh Goretsky (home)) > 3. Re: [240X] Faster Hard Drive (Simon Royal) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:50:53 -0700 > From: "Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [701C] Faster Hard Drive > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Hello, > > There are several reports of the Transcend 8GB SLC PATA SSD being > very slow. It is possible this could be due not having the correct > device drivers loaded or alignment (disk geometry) issues, but if > the SSD is very slow, than the only other advantage may possibly be > battery life. > > There was a large amount of tweaking one could do to Microsoft Windows > 95 to alter performance characteristics--positively and otherwise. > Microsoft's current crop of operating systems handles this stuff much > better out of the box. > > Some of the older Microsoft Windows tips sites like http://dougknox.com/ > and http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/ may contain some pointers about > Windows 95 optimization. I also remember seeing CacheMem 95 being > touted as an improvement tool, but have no experience with it myself: > http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=11 > > Windows 95 does use virtual memory, so the operating system will > periodically access the paging file on disk to manage it or swap > things in and out. > > Regards, > > Aryeh Goretsky > > > > At 10:08 PM 8/10/2010, you wrote: > >Message: 7 > >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:48:48 -0700 > >From: [email protected] (Jonathan Berry) > >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Faster Hard Drive > >To: [email protected] > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > > > >I have an old 15GB 4200RPM drive in my ThinkPad 240x. > > >I want to put something bigger in it. 15GB just aint big enough > > for two OSes. Is there any mileage in getting a faster drive, like > > a 5400 or 7200RPM drive? > > >It helped in a Mac I had a year ago. > > > > > > >The consensus on this list was that 5400 disks were a vast > >improvement (both speed and reliability) over 4200. You're > >implying that 4200 are still made, and if so, I guess they > >would have incorporated the *technology* improvements that > >came with the original 5400s. It's not the speed, it's the > >technology improvements that came along at the same time. > > > >The jury was out on 7200s. Is wear proportional to speed, > >or to the *square* of speed? Anyway, I don't use 'em. > > > >I am thinking of buying a Transcend 8 GB SLC PATA drive > >for my old 701C. I said I would buy one when the price was > >$100 (Canadian). It approached that level, then it went out > >of stock at all retailers, some regard it as a special order > >item etc etc. It's coming back on board now. Any advice? > >It would be on a 701C, 75 MHz 486 cpu, 40 MB RAM, running > >Windows 95a. OK, it's not going to be a speed demon, but > >it is going to be as close as I can get to silent computing. > >The 701C doesn't have a fan, so no chance of that kind of > >noise! And it's kind of a nice fit, because the 701C can't > >address more than 8.1 GB hard drive without using disk > >management software. > > > >Did Win95 have any of the issues of writing crap to disk too > >often? I notice in Win 7 that the disk access light comes on > >every couple of seconds, whether the computer is running apps > >or not. > > > > > >-- > >happy > >Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:54:31 -0700 > From: "Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [701C] Faster Hard Drive > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Hello, > > It could be the CompactFlash card needed to be first be initialized > using the PCMCIA ATA Device Drivers software from IBM's support web > site at http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/GCOR-3BUK6P.html. > > Regards, > > Aryeh Goretsky > > At 10:08 PM 8/10/2010, you wrote: > >Message: 9 > >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:02 -0700 > >From: [email protected] (Jonathan Berry) > >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Faster Hard Drive > >To: [email protected] > >Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > > >Paul said: > > > > > >Jonathan said: > > > > > >> I am thinking of buying a Transcend 8 GB SLC PATA drive > > >> for my old 701C. > > > > > >I'd recommend you make sure you can return it. I tried a solid-state > drive > > >in my 701C and it didn't work at all. It was a SD card adapter from > eBay, > > >so you may have better luck, but the adapter worked fine in my 380XD > which > > >also has the 8 GB limit. > > > > > > >I went through something similar with a CF-to-IDE adapter. > >It's still in mothballs. Evidently some CF cards are not > >bootable. Which ones they are is a mystery--to me--but > >I know that I have two such CF cards! > > > >But the Transcend being an actual PATA drive, surely ... > >well that's one of the reasons I asked. > > > > > >-- > >happy > >Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:06:36 +0100 > From: "Simon Royal" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [240X] Faster Hard Drive > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi > > A lot of older computers had a 128GB limit, some even older ones had 8GB > limits. > > Im not intending of putting anything as large as 128GB. > > Simon > > --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum. (Sent > using Sony Ericsson P990i). > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > End of Thinkpad Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13 > **************************************** > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
